Forum

All the new electronics!

By MTT, Created on: 21/10/2010, Last updated on: 02/11/2010

» With so many new telephones and computers coming on the market, just wondering if anyone is interested in using this thread as a clearing house for questions/information about all of the stuff available. Talk about things you don't like with a new model you just bought. Tell us the prices so we...

• MTT commented : So, anybody have any information about product features? I am particularly interested in the Galaxy S phone and the new Galaxy Pad versus the Apple products. Additionally I need to know whether to go with the Android system or wait for the Windows version. Any info would be helpful. -------------------------------------------------- As a side note for the service in Thailand topic: After you have opened your account with iTunes, and if you cannot get help with your Apple product for whatever reason (I assume the phone companies selling the phones can provide a lot of help, I have no trouble getting service from the True stores where my Internet/GPRS service is from and from AIS who has my telephone number. I bought my phone second-hand at a small retail shop in Panthip on Ngam Wong Wan Road). (I have no desire to own a MacBook at triple the price. My Acer PC and my eeePC will have to do.) When I had trouble opening my iTunes account for my iPad which I bought at some shop named iStudio or something like that, the Apple Shop in Central Chaeng-Wattana gave me the following number for the Apple Hotline 001-800-0441-2904. This is a US number but it was answered in Singapore. They asked me to write to them at http://www.apple.com/asia/support/itunes - select email and tell them the problem. An answer arrived in less than 24 hours and the problem was solved in about two days. After I got all this done, I heard they then released the iPAD in Japan. Surprised me, too, since I already had one up and running. I then realized that the Apple Store here probably did not have any iPADS for sale yet because Apple had not 'released' them (ergo the term [i:29dwvm45]jailbreak[/i:29dwvm45]), but they had no problem getting me help for the one I bought at another store. I think the service is reasonable and quite possible to obtain from a variety of sources. I am not unfamiliar with service in Thailand. If you are using a stall (or any) shop, the trick is to use one which has a guy actually making repairs at a table in the corner. The ones which only have used phones surrounded by phone cases and other goods can't help you much. The final trick is to go back a second time if you must and take a friend who can speak Thai and knows about electronics and technical stuff. After they have finished with the obligatory small talk like 'making toast' and where the farang is from and where he works, they will either give you an answer or tell you where you can get an answer if they know. If they don't, just tell them that you do not need to buy a phone case today when you are asked and everybody is happy. Then go to another shop - do not go to the shop next to the one you were just at because that will be her sister's shop and she doesn't know any additional information.

• 9 replies, 20,013 views